Christian helps deliver Zainab's baby

Christian helps deliver Zainab's baby
Christian helps deliver Zainab's baby (Image credit: DAN KENNEDY)

Christian is sad that Syed is torn between their friendship and his family and he returns to the Masala Unit to confront Zainab. Christian realises Zainab is in labour and breaks down the door. Christian calls Masood and Syed along with an ambulance, but the baby isn't going to wait and Christian helps Masood deliver the baby by getting instructions over the phone from the emergency services. Masood successfully delivers a baby boy and he and Zainab name him Kamil. Dot calls Dotty by her real name, Kirstie, as they wait for Dotty's mum. Sandy arrives and is delighted and has an emotional reunion with Dotty. Sandy tells Dot that she wants Dotty to come home with her. Dot packs up Dotty's things and says goodbye to her granddaughter as she struggles to contain her heartbreak. Stacey is still missing. Max is starting to lose it and packs up his and Bradley's possessions from the car lot office, including the leaflets advertising 'Branning and Son'... Also, Syed's upset when Amira reveals she's not ready to have a baby; Ian tells Leon to stay away from Lucy. Click here to watch whatsontv.co.uk’s weekly soaps video preview, the Soap Scoop

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Patrick McLennan

Patrick McLennan is a London-based journalist and documentary maker who has worked as a writer, sub-editor, digital editor and TV producer in the UK and New Zealand. His CV includes spells as a news producer at the BBC and TVNZ, as well as web editor for Time Inc UK. He has produced TV news and entertainment features on personalities as diverse as Nick Cave, Tom Hardy, Clive James, Jodie Marsh and Kevin Bacon and he co-produced and directed The Ponds, which has screened in UK cinemas, BBC Four and is currently available on Netflix. 

An entertainment writer with a diverse taste in TV and film, he lists Seinfeld, The Sopranos, The Chase, The Thick of It and Detectorists among his favourite shows, but steers well clear of most sci-fi.